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Standard front

Standard economy-first Front play: Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost immediately, Advanced Metal Extractor around 9 minutes, with a mixed T1 army of Blitz, Rocketeer, Pawn and Janus sent to hold the wider gap and then middle.

#eco · 935 distinct matches · 127 players · 75% of Armada Front games · team won 63% of 1063 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Vehicle Plant by 0:47

  1. Open 3 mex then Bot Lab and Vehicle Plant almost together.
  2. Layer wind while both labs start producing.
  3. Send early units to coast first to stop leaks, not middle.
  4. Add Construction Turrets as "Blitz", "Rocketeer", "Janus" mix builds up.
  5. Transition into Advanced Metal Extractor once T2 con is out.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 935 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:00 step by step: what to build now, what comes next, and where it goes. At 1× it keeps pace with your own game.

  1. 1

    Up to the Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor2Mex
    • Wind Turbine1Wind
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 3 mex, 1 winddone ~0:45, middle half 0:35–8:30

    Some games also: Vehicle Plant (41%)

    By 0:28 in all: 2 mex · 1 wind

    The example game in this phase · 1 step
    1. Bot LabBot Labdone 0:20 · typical 0:45
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 5:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: rocketeer (46%) · con bot (45%) · Lazarus (44%) · tick (40%) · centurion (37%)

    By 5:00 in all: 6 mex · 7 wind

    The example game in this phase · 30 steps
    1. Mex
    2. TickTick
    3. Construction BotCon bot
    4. Mex
    5. Wind ×2
    6. PawnPawn
    7. Mex
    8. PawnPawn
    9. PawnPawnfor Pond
    10. PawnPawn
    11. LazarusLazarus
    12. Construction BotCon bot ×2
    13. Mex
    14. CenturionCenturion
    15. RocketeerRocketeer
    16. Mex
    17. RocketeerRocketeer ×8
    18. SentrySentry
    19. RocketeerRocketeer
    20. Wind
    21. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    22. Wind
    23. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    24. Wind
    25. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    26. Wind
    27. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    28. Wind
    29. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    30. Radar TowerRadar Tower
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor1Mex
    • Wind Turbine14Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret2 Con turret
    Army
    • Sentry1 Sentry

    Some games also: energy storage (46%) · blitz (39%) · rocketeer (39%) · pawn (36%) · Lazarus (35%)

    By 10:00 in all: 7 mex · 25 wind · 1 energy storage · 3 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 178 steps
    1. Wind
    2. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    3. Wind
    4. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    5. Wind
    6. RocketeerRocketeer
    7. Mex
    8. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    9. Energy storage
    10. RocketeerRocketeer ×7
    11. Con turret
    12. RocketeerRocketeer ×4
    13. SentrySentry
    14. CenturionCenturion
    15. Con turret
    16. SentrySentry
    17. LazarusLazarus
    18. Mex
    19. CenturionCenturion
    20. Con turret
    21. SentrySentry
    22. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    23. SentrySentry
    24. RocketeerRocketeer ×3
    25. Con turret
    26. RocketeerRocketeer
    27. Mex
    28. RocketeerRocketeer ×5
    29. Con turret
    30. RocketeerRocketeer ×2
    31. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 10:04 · typical 8:52
    32. RocketeerRocketeer
    33. Con turret ×2
    34. Wind
    35. RocketeerRocketeer
    36. Wind ×2
    37. RocketeerRocketeer
    38. Wind
    39. Con turret
    40. Wind
    41. RocketeerRocketeer
    42. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    43. Wind
    44. RocketeerRocketeer
    45. Wind
    46. Converter
    47. RocketeerRocketeer
    48. Converter
    49. RocketeerRocketeer
    50. Wind
    51. RocketeerRocketeer
    52. Wind
    53. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    54. RocketeerRocketeer
    55. Wind ×3
    56. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labnot finished by 15:00
    57. Wind ×2
    58. RocketeerRocketeer
    59. Wind ×2
    60. RocketeerRocketeer
    61. Wind ×2
    62. PawnPawn
    63. Wind ×2
    64. PawnPawn ×2
    65. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    66. Wind
    67. Construction BotCon bot
    68. Converter
    69. Construction BotCon bot
    70. Converter ×2
    71. Wind
    72. Construction BotCon bot
    73. Converter
    74. PawnPawn
    75. Wind
    76. PawnPawn
    77. Converter
    78. PawnPawn
    79. Con turret
    80. Wind
    81. PawnPawn
    82. Wind ×2
    83. PawnPawn
    84. Wind
    85. PawnPawn
    86. Wind
    87. PawnPawn ×2
    88. Wind ×2
    89. PawnPawn ×2
    90. Wind ×2
    91. PawnPawn ×2
    92. Wind
    93. PawnPawn
    94. Converter
    95. PawnPawn
    96. Wind
    97. PawnPawn
    98. Converter
    99. PawnPawn
    100. Wind
    101. PawnPawn ×2
    102. Converter
    103. PawnPawn
    104. Converter
    105. PawnPawn ×2
    106. Wind
    107. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    108. Converter
    109. PawnPawn ×2
    110. Wind
    111. PawnPawn
    112. Wind
    113. PawnPawn
    114. Wind ×2
    115. LazarusLazarus
    116. Wind
    117. PawnPawn
    118. Wind
    119. PawnPawn ×2
    120. Wind ×2
    121. PawnPawn ×3
    122. Wind ×2
    123. PawnPawn ×2
    124. Wind ×2
    125. PawnPawn ×2
    126. Wind
    127. PawnPawn
    128. Converter
    129. PawnPawn
    130. Converter ×2
    131. PawnPawn ×3
    132. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    133. Converter
    134. Wind
    135. PawnPawn ×2
    136. Wind
    137. PawnPawn
    138. Wind
    139. PawnPawn ×2
    140. Wind
    141. PawnPawn
    142. Wind
    143. PawnPawn ×2
    144. Wind ×2
    145. PawnPawn
    146. Construction BotCon bot
    147. Wind ×2
    148. PawnPawn ×2
    149. Advanced Bot LabAdvanced Bot Labdone 14:03
    150. Wind
    151. PawnPawn
    152. Wind ×3
    153. Converter
    154. PawnPawn
    155. Converter
    156. RattlesnakeRattlesnakedone 14:46
    157. Converter ×2
    158. Wind ×2
    159. PawnPawn
    160. Advanced Construction BotT2 con bot
    161. PawnPawn
    162. Wind ×4
    163. Con turret
    164. PawnPawn
    165. Wind
    166. PawnPawn
    167. Wind
    168. PawnPawn ×2
    169. Fusion ReactorFusionnot finished by 15:00
    170. Wind ×2
    171. PawnPawn
    172. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    173. Wind
    174. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth
    175. Wind
    176. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×3
    177. Converter
    178. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×2

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Damsko's (39 OS, 22/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

Nothing regular.

You get

  • Tidal Generator4 Tidal from Pondfirst at 0:18 · in 68% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Geo or Techfirst at 7:17 · in 67% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

05k10k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

1063 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0033300
2:008462131
3:001624140105
4:002712540333
5:0038681188813
6:00507620991526
7:00631429842459
8:00766238713365
9:00908746324312
10:001066653085060
11:001260858195701
12:001481563136521
13:001744069817256
14:002018375848093
15:002263083948939
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

Standard Front play wins more often than suicide front and produces more metal by 15:00, reflecting its safer positioning.

  • + Metal produced reaches 22219 by 15:00, above suicide front's 19882
  • + Own losses of 8949 stay under enemy metal destroyed's near-equal 8347
  • − First unit lost by 1:44 shows exposure even from the safer side
  • − Wider gap to defend demands disciplined coast-then-mid unit movement
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Damsko

38.6 OS · 22/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
32 metal received · 36330 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab0:45Middle 50%: 0:35–8:30 · n=670
Vehicle Plant0:47Middle 50%: 0:37–0:59 · n=753
Advanced Metal Extractor8:52Middle 50%: 8:00–10:03 · n=845

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